The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

Engraving of a lost Mathew Brady ambrotype of Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane, 1856. Published in the August 30, 1856 issue of Frank Leslie...

  Engraving of a lost Mathew Brady ambrotype of Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane (center) with fellow expedition members after returning to ...

Ambrotype portrait of two unidentified women, c. 1860′s/1870′s. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Ambrotype portrait of a gardener posing over a wooden tub of water by an unidentified British photographer, c. 1855. Source: J. Paul Ge...

Ambrotype portrait of Benjamin Johnson Lang and Margaret Burrage on their wedding day, c. 1859. Source: Boston Public Library.

Ambrotype portrait of 98-year-old Milly Perkins who lived in Bethany, Connecticut, c. 1850's/1860's. From the book Bethany And It...

Ambrotype portrait of an African American Union soldier named Qualls Tibbs who served with the 27th United States Colored Infantry during...

Two ambrotype portraits of a family posing in front of Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls, Ontario, c. 1850′s/1860′s. By Edward Davis. ...

Ambrotype portrait of Abraham Lincoln in Danville, Illinois, May 1857. By Amon T. Joslin. Image from the book Lincoln in Photographs: An ...

Hand-colored ambrotype portrait of Confederate soldier Thomas Isaiah Booker who served with a Louisiana regiment during the Civil War. ...

Ambrotype portrait of an unidentified man and young boy playing chess, c. 1850′s. Source.

Ambrotype portrait of two Japanese samurai posing with their swords, c. 1867. By Hitomi Studio. Source.

Hand-colored ambrotype portrait of Union soldier Seneca Flint who served with the 2nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry during the Civ...

Hand-colored ambrotype portrait of an unidentified Virginia Military Institute cadet, c. 1860. Source.

Hand-colored ambrotype portrait of Confederate officers Colonel Robert D. Lilley (left) and Major James Templeton, c. 1861. Lilley served...

Hand-colored ambrotype portrait of a Union soldier of the 13th Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War. Source.

Ambrotype portrait of an unidentified Union soldier with a Hardee hat during the Civil War. Source.

Hand-colored ambrotype portrait of a mounted unidentified Union cavalryman during the Civil War. Source.

Ambrotype portrait of an unidentified African American boy during the Civil War. Source.

Ambrotype portrait of George Armstrong Custer in cadet uniform while a student at the United States Military Academy at West Point, c. 18...